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Attendees present: Kevin Russell, Ardle Steele, Gary Clark, Russ Redfield, Dan Hargroves, Sue Miller, Cindy James, and Carol Wane.
The committee went directly to an overview of the Sign Regulation by covering the definitions. The goal is to clarify and simplify the regulation.
The committee's next meeting will continue the sign regulations and will be on Thursday, January 26th at 6:30 PM.
Present were: Russ Redfield, Cindy James, Kevin Russell, Ardele Steel, Sue Miller, Carol Wane, Ken Waymire, and Dan Hargroves.
We went over the first 10 pages of the Old World Architectural Design Standards. A few areas seemed confusing but once discussed were clarified. The color wheel was brought to the meeting as well as the sign ordinance, but we were not able to focus on them at this meeting due to time constraints; however, we now have a copy to go over for discussion in the future.
One point that was brought up was that the permits have a blurb printed at the bottom of the document that if your business is in the theme district 1 or 2, you will need to submit two copies of your plans with the permit request. This will save time, money, and headaches for everyone involved.
The section of the ordinance called the "Old World Architecture design standards for the City of Zillah" from page 10 forward, will be the next section for review. We will read it and make notes on items that are confusing or contentious, and discuss and clarify these areas.
The next meeting will be January 11, 2012 at 6:30 PM.
Present were Kevin Russell, Gary Clark, Sue Miller, Russ Redfield, Ardele Steel, and Carol Wane.
Starting with Section 9 of the ordinance, we completed it all the way to the end with just one word change.
Section 11A: changed the word "their" to "the". (by this chapter basing the decision on).
We decided after discussing the confusion on the sign ordinance to go over and work out the confusion at our next meeting. We will also look at the color wheel.
The section of the ordinance called "Old World Architecture design standards for the City of Zillah" will be the next section of review. We will read it and make notes on items that are confusing, or contentious, and clarify these areas.
The next meeting will be December 7, 2011 at 6:30 PM.
Attendee's were Gary Clark, Kevin Russell, Dan Hargroves, Sue Miller, Ardele Steele, and Carol Wane.
Kevin started the meeting with an overview of the previous meeting, and Ardele explained how the procedures work on getting this through all parties.
We all agreed that this document needs to have flexibility in its wording and be easily understood by all.
This meeting started with the ordinance section by section. When we ran into a potential problem, we discussed it and altered or approved it. The only addition so far was in Section 5.B. "All applications for building permits required by this chapter, and as deemed by building official, shall be accompanied by a complete set of plans and blueprints, drawn to scale etc. etc. (Blue indicates the addition)
We reviewed through section 8. We will continue with section 9 at our next meeting Nov 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM.
Please express any concerns or questions with any board member and we will address them at our next meeting.
Zillah Theme Update Committee, Sep 28, 2011
Members present were: Kevin Russell, City Council Member; Gary Clark, Mayor; Russ Redfield, Planning Commission member; Sue Miller, Old town business representative; Cindy James, New town addition representative; Ken Waymire, Chamber President; Ardele Steele, City Planner; and Carol Wane, Chamber Secretary. Dan Hargroves, Code Enforcement, was absent due to a fire.
The objective of this committee is to come up with a plan that is workable for all parties and creates an atmosphere of cooperation. Each member can take the results back to their respective groups for validation or critiquing. This way everyone that wishes to will have a part in the end results.
First order of business was to vote in a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson.
Kevin Russell is the Chairperson, and Ken Waymire is the Vice Chairperson.
Ken Waymire suggested that we take a week to overview the packet of information that the City had provided, as not everyone had time to read everything presented therein. It was unanimous and the next meeting will be Wednesday, October 5th. That these meeting stay within one hour to one and a half hours maximum.
Kevin mentioned that the ordinance has to be flexible with a wider spectrum and an emphasis on overall agriculture, not just one industry, i.e. wineries. The ordinance also has to show the intent of the rule.
Gary wants this committee structure to stay in tack as a group even after this ordinance is resolved to give input for solving issues that may come up in the future.
It was also mentioned that in Section G of the revised ordinance, the two designees stated there, should be two persons from this committee that can help the code enforcer with exception issues of pre-existing structure.
Meeting was adjourned.